Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The sea, the sea, who will be able to drain it dry? —George Seferis, from “Mythistorema”

In this small house On the bluff that is being Inexorably eaten away In front of the large bay windows That let in the light, Pray your eyes take in As much as they can Before running out and down To the strand, your hands cupped Round your ears so you can hear clearly The world’s beckoning, inexhaustible

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Wishful thinking Rosy Rat gut package twine of courseThere’s no such thing but Metaphorically speaking ifBill hadn’t let the cat out of the bag Back in the Globe we could all beTying rings round parcels Of fat cat operators

Bio Degradable

Born in Greece, I was taken at the age of four to the small town of Raymond, WA in 1948. After high school, I attended the University of Washington but dropped out after a year, spent 1963-1964 travelling in Europe and in Greece, settling in Munich until getting drafted into the US Army. After my discharge, I completed my sophomore year at GHC, Aberdeen, WA, then transferred to the UW where I received an MA in English. In 1970, I co-founded the poetry magazine Madrona and also worked for the Seattle Housing Authority before returning to Greece in 1972. I married Eleni in 1980 and we have a daughter, Efiniki, 32, and a son, Anastasios, 30. I'm now semi-retired from teaching ESL in my language school in Meligalas but still writing poetry--which I've been doing for the last forty years. My poems have been published in various literary magazines in the US and abroad. A number of my poems were also included in the anthology How The Net Is Gripped: a selection of contemporary American Poetry (Stride, UK, 1992), and I have two collections of poetry, Sentences (Querencia Books, 1976), and Aural (Singing Horse Press, 1984).